News: conferences, events and seminars
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2019
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Sexual Abuse and Domestic Abuse in the Lives of Children and Young People, Leicester
Dispossession: The great social housing swindle followed by a panel discussion, London
European Sociological Association Conference: Europe and Beyond – boundaries, barriers and belonging, Manchester: call for contributions
Human-Forest Relations in England: Equity and inclusion in law, ecology and society, Tetbury: call for papers
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and methods, Berlin: call for papers
Rich Law, Poor Law, London: registration now open and programme and abstracts now available
Impact and Law Reform Conference, London: save the date
2019
January
Dispossession: The great social housing swindle followed by a panel discussion, London
Date: 22 January 2019
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus
Please see website for details.
Funding Justice or Fuelling Crime? The political economy of crime and justice in historical perspective - Leeds Historical Criminology seminar
Date: 25 January 2019
Venue: Maurice Keyworth Building, Business School, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
Rich Law, Poor Law: call for papers
Date: 25 January 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This is an SLSA-sponsored one-day event. See webpage for details.
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: TLI Signature lecture
Date: 30 January 2019
Venue: Somerset House East Wing, King's College London
Speaker: Professor Emily Grabham, University of Kent
Title: The Sexual Contract is a Cosmic Gamble: Law, Fate, and World-Making in the Lives of Women in Precarious Work
Please see website for details.
The Role of the Intelligent Machine and Technology in Organized Crime: An interdisciplinary research event
Date: 30 January 2019
Venue: Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, Bristol
Please see website for details.
February
Film screening and discussion with director Brian Perkins: Golden Kingdom
Date: 4 February 2019
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
Please see flyer for details. This event is raising funds for Rohingya refugees.
Sir Richard Arnold: Annual Westminster Law School lecture
Date: 5 February 2019
Venue: Five Hall, Regent Street, London
Please see website for details.
‘Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime’ Book Launch, Edinburgh
Date: 5 February 2019
Venue: Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh
Evening reception to launch Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation by Dr Kim Barker (Stirling Law School) and Dr Olga Jurasz (Open University Law School). See website for details.
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: TLI Signature lecture
Date: 6 February 2019
Venue: Somerset House East Wing, King's College London
Speaker: Professor Walter Kaelin
Title: ‘We don’t want to become refugees’: Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change
Please see website for details.
‘Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime’ Book Launch, Cardiff
Date: 12 February 2019
Venue: Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay
Evening reception to launch Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation by Dr Kim Barker (Stirling Law School) and Dr Olga Jurasz (Open University Law School). See website for details.
Women's Legal Landmarks: In conversation – a series of talks exploring legal landmarks for women
Dates: 13 February, 13 March, 10 April, 15 May and 12 June 2019 – London
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Speakers at first event: Anne Morris and Sue Atkins
Please see attachment for full details.
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: TLI Signature lecture
Date: 14 February 2019
Venue: Council Room, King's Building, King's College London
Speaker: Professor Kathryn Sikkink
Please see website for details.
How to get a PhD in Law: Day Two on 'The PhD journey: supervision, research ethics and preparing yourself for upgrade and vivas'
Date: 28 February 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This day will cover: the PhD journey - the staging posts of your PhD and support for research students; handling the supervision relationship; preparing for the Ethics Committee; preparing for upgrade viva and the PhD viva; discussion panel of students who have nearly completed their PhD in law; the foreign, international and comparative research collections of IALS Library. Please see website for details.
March
Sexual Abuse and Domestic Abuse in the Lives of Children and Young People
Date: 1 March 2019
Venue: Hugh Aston Building, De Montfort University, Leicester
Speakers: Zoe Lodrick, psychotherapist and trainer; Dr Melanie McCarry, University of Strathclyde; and Pat Branigan, NSPCC
Please see website for details.
OxonCourts 1st Judicial Studies Graduate Colloquium: call for papers
Date: 1 March 2019
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
Please see website for details. Closing date: 11 January 2019.
Professor Colin Mayer CBE: Centre for Business Law and Practice annual lecture
Date: 20 March 2019
Venue: Maurice Keyworth Building, Business School, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop
Date: 21 March 2019
Venue: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Please see attachment for details.
The 'Acceptable' Cartel? Horizontal agreements under competition law and beyond: call for papers
Date: 22 March 2019
Venue: London School of Economics and Political Science
This is a workshop reflecting McEllistrim v Ballymacelligott Co-Operative Agricultural and Dairy Society Limited [1919] AC 548. Please see website for details. Closing date: 31 January 2019.
Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference
Dates: 22–23 March 2019
Venue: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Please see website for details.
April
Sustainable Taxation: Global challenges and legal solutions – call for papers
Dates: 8–9 April 2019
Venue: University College of Gävle, Sweden
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 31 January 2019. Accepted participants will have the opportunity to publish their papers in a book edited by Neil H Buchanan and Yvette Lind, published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Workshop on Security, Borders and International Development: Intersections, convergence and challenges
Dates: 25–26 April 2019
Venue: University of Warwick
This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition. Please see attachment for details.
May
Laypersons in Law: call for papers
Dates: 9–10 May 2019
Venue: Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
Organised by Humboldt University, Berlin, the University of Magdeburg. Please see website for details. Closing date: 15 January 2019.
How to get a PhD in Law: Day Three on 'Researching, disseminating and publishing in the digital world'
Date: 10 May 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This day will cover: the PhD in law in the digital world; legal writing; disseminating your legal research; getting your research published in journals; what books are law publishers looking to publish; publishing in Open Access online law journals; tips on keeping up to date with your research topic after completion. See website for details.
Human-Forest Relations in England: Equity and inclusion in law, ecology and society: call for papers
Dates: 13–15 May 2019
Venue: Great Oak Hall, Westonbirt Arboretum, Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Please see website for details of this workshop. Closing date for abstracts: 8 February 2019.
Law and Psychology Conference 2019: call for papers
Date: 15 May 2019
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 15 February 2019.
Association for Law Property and Society Annual Meeting: call for papers
Date: 16–18 May 2019
Venue: Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, New York
Please see website for meeting details and call for papers. Closing date for submitting papers and panels: 20 February 2019.
20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law: call for papers
Dates: 23–25 May 2019
Venue: Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra (UCILeR - University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), Coimbra, Portugal
Theme: The limits of law
Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 15 January 2019.
Law–Religion–Politics: call for papers
Dates: 26–27 April 2019
Venue: University of Wrocław, Poland
Please see attachment and Facebook page for details. Closing date: 22 March 2018.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2019: Dignity
Dates: 30 May–2 June 2019
Venue: Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, USA
Please see website for details.
June
Canadian Law and Society Association/Association Canadienne Droit et Société Annual Meeting
Dates: 3–5 June 2019
Venue: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Please see website for meeting details and call for papers.
CKOP Event: The ethical responsibilities of professionals in a climate of uncertainty – an unconference
Date: 5 June 2018
Venue: Open University in London
This event is organised by the Centre for Knowledge in Organisations and Professions. Please see website for details.
Impact and Law Reform Conference
Date: 11 June 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Please see webpage for details.
ASLI Conference: The rule of law and the role of law in Asia
Dates: 11–12 June 2019
Venue: Asian Law Institute, Faculty of Law, Bukit Timah Campus, National University of Singapore
Please see website for details.
Corruption, Democracy and Human Rights: call for papers
Dates: 20–21 June 2019
Venue: European University Institute, Florence, Italy
This is a joint event organised by Portsmouth Law School and the European University Institute. Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 26 February 2019.
Labour Law Research Network LLRN4 Valparaíso: A global conversation on labour law
Dates: 23–25 June 2019
Venue: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Please see website and attachement for details of call.
International Critical Management Studies Conference: 'Being open to Care, Being Open about Care: Working Motherhood under Neoliberalism’ stream – call for papers
Dates: 27–29 June 2019
Venue: The Open University, Milton Keynes
Please see website for details. Closing date: 13 January 2019.
Third International Advocacy Conference: save the date
Date: 28 June 2019
Venue: Centre for Advocacy, Nottingham Law School
Theme: Advocacy and Vulnerable Witnesses: 20 Years on from the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999
Please see flyer for further details.
July
Applied Legal Storytelling: call for proposals
Dates: 9–11 July 2019
Venue: University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Please see website for details. Closing date: 21 January 2019.
Tax Policy Conference 2019
Date: 9 July 2019
Venue: University of Cambridge
Topic: 'Tax justice and tax law'
Please see website for details.
August
European Sociological Association Conference: Europe and Beyond – boundaries, barriers and belonging: call for contributions
Dates: 20–23 August 2019
Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University
The ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Law Session: Democratic Deficit and Judicial Power in Europe Session – organised by Jacek Kurczewski and Mavis Maclean – invites contributions. Please see attachment and website for details.
September
UACES 49th Annual Conference: call for papers
Dates: 1–4 September 2019
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
UACES is the academic association for contemporary European studies. See website for details. Closing date: 20 January 2019.
Television drama, law and national identity: call for papers
Date: 6 September 2019
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Please see attachment and website for details. Call closes: 1 February 2019.
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and methods: call for papers
Dates: 23–24 September 2019
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin
Please see webpage for details. Closing date: 4 March 2019.
2020
June
Genocide and Law: Communicating through visual arts and language: call for papers
Dates: 26–28 June 2020
Venue: Poznan, Poland
This is the 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law and the 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics. Please see flyer for details. Closing date for abstracts: 28 February 2020.
W G Hart Legal Workshop 2020: Call for workshop proposals and the nomination of academic directors
Date: tbc
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
The W G Hart Legal Workshops are directed towards the advancement of legal education at the academic stage. The Institute invites applications to lead the 2020 Workshop and will particularly welcome proposals that continue the workshop’s long tradition of breaking new ground. For further information please see the website. Closing date for submission: 11 January 2019.